Drop Error in and Error out together

[Intaris]

I don't know how many times I've wanted to add Error in and Error out terminals to a VI retrospectively and have to visit the cluster palette twice to do just that.

How about (for those of us who don't yet use Quickdrop) an option to drop an Error Cluster pair (Both in and out) to save us a trip to the Palette?

That's it really.

Shane.

[PaulG.]

I would be happier being able to create a custom "new" vi complete with error in and out controls already connected to the terminals.

[crossrulz]

What I did was create a VI with the two error clusters and add it to the palette with "Drop VI Contents" enabled.  Granted, I have to drop the clusters on the bock diagram, but it does work.

A more general solution would to allow multiple controls/indicators to be made into a single control palette item.  I know that idea is floating around somewhere, but I'm too busy/lazy to look it up right now.

[SteenSchmidt]

Duplicate. But good idea!

Cheers,

Steen

[fabric]

The duplicate mentioned by Steen talked about placing a pair of error clusters from the palette...

...could this new idea be interpreted as an ability to drop the pair of error clusters without even visiting the palette?

I can see great value in a fast method* to drop a pair of error clusters AND wire them to the connector pane terminals. That would save even more mouse clicks! 

* E.g. Menu option, right-click diagram, right-click connector pane, take your pick...

[Intaris]

It's official:  It's essentially a duplicate of the idea Steen linked to.  this is essentially exactly what I meant but instead of multiple palette selection I would have made a third entry with a pair of Error clusters (appropriately named) via a VI set to place its contents when dropped.

[fabric]

...so no interest in auto-wiring of the connector pane then?!  

I guess I'll have to offload my unwanted mouse clicks elsewhere...

[JÞB]

I could see where "Auto-connect Error terminals to connector pane" would be a good default LabVIEW.ini sub-option indented under "Automatically include Error In and Error Out on new vis"  Kudos!

[Intaris]

@fabric

I'm not a big fac of LV doing things for me which I may or may not want.  I'm torn on the issue of error clusters, but my gut instinct tells me no.

BTW, Allowing us to generate scripting Macros which can be called from a menu could solve this problem.  Or cant his be done with Quick drop?  I've never gottena round to using quick drop.

[fabric]

"I'm not a big fan of LV doing things for me which I may or may not want."

Personally, I'm more a fan of LV allowing me to easily do things I do want. Slightly tangential to your original idea, but if I could right-click on the connector pane and select "drop and wire error terminals" then that would make me very happy.

That said, if I dropped my error clusters from the palette then it would probably make more sense to leave them unwired.

I'm certainly not looking for overly bloated menus, but I like context-aware options that facilitate efficient development.

[Darren]

Duplicate of http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Place-error-in-and-error-out-at-same-time/idc-p/233685...